Foreign News: That Is Their Strength

TIME'S London bureau head, John Osborne, sent this summary of The
Crisis:

The most terrible of human forcesfrightwas abroad in Britain.
The people were frightened, as Dunkirk, blitz and buzzbombs had never
frightened them.

Politically, anything might have happened if a strong, vital alternative
to the Labor Government had been at hand. But the Government was in no
danger of falling; the blackout was even more of a catastrophe for the
Conservative Party than it was for the Laborites. It was indeed the
final evidence and confirmation of the catastrophe which the
Conservatives...